speaking topics

Leadership Development

Please note that all programs are customized to the audience we are speaking, but, if you are interested in a topic that you don’t see here, please inquire. We often create new programs upon request to do so.

Replacing the Seemingly Irreplaceable You

“Replace me, impossible!” It often feels that way, but the only way you’ll have the freedom to grow your organization and excel at what you do, retire, or have a life is to replace yourself! Learn how to give up doing it all, build a team of leaders, and successfully move on to what’s next!

Taking Micro Out of Your Management Style

There is a very thin line between “staying on top of it all” and hovering over your team. Crossing that line and becoming a micromanager leads to all sorts of problems from communication and trust issues to your being plain worn out! During this program discover how to give up micromanaging your team, build trust, become a phenomenal teacher, and be a more effective and efficient manager of your team.

Leaders Growing Leaders

Over the last several years a great deal of leadership training has consisted of our team members being thrown into the fire and figuring out how to handle it all on the fly. In today’s challenging times, companies can’t afford to have their leaders, those responsible for sustaining the company’s direction, motivation, and profitability, be anything but the leaders they are paid to be. This program will help leaders get centered and in touch with who they are as leaders, what their jobs as leaders really are, and how they, as leaders, can grow their team members into powerful leaders and build a team that has great success!

Curing the “Only I Can Do It” Syndrome

When teams are built, leaders and their teams are happier, work gets done faster, job satisfaction improves, communication improves, bottom line profitability increases, and FUN becomes a regular part of the day. Who wouldn’t benefit from team building? To grow your organization, you have to grow your team. And you can’t grow your team without first curing the “Only I Can Do It” Syndrome! In this program discover the steps to giving up your "do it all" habits, and how to build an amazing team.

Accountability = Success

One of the most consistent complaints company leaders and managers have from across all industries is the lack of accountability either from outside suppliers or those on their own team, and it isn’t because their team members are bad people. They just don’t get what accountability really means and in truth, a lot of people hide from being held accountable. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Accountability is a tool you can use to create fun, excitement, and take the guess work out of what is expected from whom and by when! During this course discover: the tools you and your team need to set and track goals, ask for help, communicate effectively, and make accountability a part of your toolbox for success!

Effective Delegation through Team Management

Effective delegation requires full and complete communication, accountability, and a commitment to growing your organization, your team, and even yourself! And how you manage and lead your team and the systems you have in place are critical to each and every step along the way. This program goes beyond the basics of delegation and looks at not only how to delegate, but other tools you can put in place to assure your team’s understanding of the role they play in the overall success of the organization.

For more information or to add Clay to your conference program, please complete and submit an online Request for Proposal or call Beth Geier, Managing Director, at 309.698.7966 or email:

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